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Sketch Style Animation
Hi Everyone,
I’m new to the forum but not the website, I’d really appreciate some help on this one,As part of a project I need to make a short ish animation of a fox, I want it to look really rough and hand drawn. A good example of the style is this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTgOe9Uda54 – that sort of rough style, low frame rate type thing. I’m pretty good at drawing and competent at photoshop, illustartor, final cut and after effects but I’m not sure what would be the best tools to use if any? It is also quite important to have a Alpha channel so I can composite it on top of footage. and how can I see my previous frame whilst creating my next to get it smoothish (like with a lightboard)
I know its possible to make animations in photoshop CS2+ and in theory I could draw the frames and scan them (although I don’t know how to then add an alpha) but what other opions do I have? anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Luke
I’ve got a macbookpro with final cut suite and adobe master suite CS4
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4 Replies
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The quickest solution I have used and would recommend is to download a demo of Poser, pretty much all the versions have it.
There is a feature within the program where you can create sketch animation from the figures you create. However, you can also import quicktime movies to use in the background and it also sketches them too! It’s fast and you have a lot of control over the look of it. Once you export that out of Poser as an image sequence or Quicktime file you can further stylize it in AE to your liking.
I’ve not seen any plug in in AE or Photoshop that comes close to the result.
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If you’re good with the tablet, Corel Painter for Mac could be interesting to you…
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Hi George thanks for the response. I had a little investigation into that poser program and in theory I should be able to download the 30day trial of poser 7 and use it for this project so thanks. It does however seem to be mainly geared towards animation of the human form and mine will be of a fox. do you think this will be a problem? also all the content and tutorials I have seen so far seem to focus on the 3d. would I be making a 3d model and then applying a really sketchy style to it and then animating it? or if not what would the basic technique be and do you know of any online tutorials?
Unfortunately I don’t have a tablet yet and have never used one before
thanks again
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I think George was referring to the abilty of poser to import QTs (or still images) as a background layer and rendering out using the sketch render.
If you want to animate characters in Poser, there are many already pre-rigged that you can use. Here’s a cartoon “wolf” (closest I could find to a fox at the moment) that animates well in poser: https://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/cartoon-characters/big-bad-wolf?item=4148&cat=10&_m=d
There are a plethora of characters pre-rigged for this app from many different vendors, some free.
Alan Sheltra/AniMajik Productions
https://oncallfx.com
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